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SUMMARY:Cartoon Exhibition: Just Speak!
DESCRIPTION:Justice for all can only be reached if we have the freedom to express ourselves in fair and peaceful communities that leave no one behind. A focus on justice is necessary in solving all conflicts. Images have the power to carry a message in a clever\, funny and informing way\, which is exactly what this exposition is about. Ideas about peace and justice from the youngest generation turned into professional cartoons\, created by human rights cartoonists from around the world. \n\n\n\nFrom Monday the 2nd of May until Thursday the 19th of May\, the Atrium in the City Hall hosts the exposition ‘Just speak!’ by The Next Movement. In its essence lies the voice of youth across the world. By means of a competition\, students across both The Hague and the world were asked about their ideas on how to achieve justice in a conflict in their part of the world. What are their thoughts on how to prevent or peacefully resolve this issue? Using their creativity to shape these ideas in the form of a cartoon\, their drawings were shared with the professional cartoonist network from The Next Movement. They chose the best\, most inspiring ideas and turned them into editorial cartoons. \n\n\n\nHague Justice Week \n\n\n\n This exposition is part of the Hague Justice Week 2022\, which takes place from the 30th of May until the 3rd of June. Global peace and justice require global collaboration. During The Hague Justice Week\, actors of all levels come together\, interact and try to find answers to global challenges through the scope of justice. \n\n\n\nVisit the ‘Just speak!’ exposition to see the voice of youth across the world! This link opens in a new tab
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/cartoon-exhibition-just-speak/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220509T180000
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SUMMARY:Preparation and Applying for a Job in the Netherlands for Newly Arrived Ukrainians
DESCRIPTION:We want to help Ukrainian people displaced to the greater Rotterdam – The Hague area enter the Dutch job market. Some of the people that have recently arrived are highly skilled professionals and speak English. We could be of assistance to them in getting into the international sectors in the region. \n\n\n\nTo help this aim\, a number of public-sector organisations have come together to organise a series of job skills webinars. We hope that these will provide a useful orientation onto the Dutch labour market.  \n\n\n\nThe first webinar will focus on Preparation and Applying for a job in the Netherlands.  \n\n\n\nTopics to be covered will include:  \n\n\n\nStructuring a CVWriting a cover letter for Dutch employersIdentifying your most marketable skillsFinding ‘transferrable skills’ from your other rolesWhich skills to emphasise for Dutch employersHow to conduct yourself in an interviewPreparing a portfolioNegotiating your job offer\n\n\n\n… and much more!  \n\n\n\nSpeaker details \n\n\n\nOctagon Professionals: The one-stop HR service provider for all human capital and talent needs \n\n\n\nUndutchables: The premier recruitment consultant for international and multilingual companies and people \n\n\n\nThis event is an initiative from:
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/preparation-and-applying-for-a-job-in-the-netherlands-for-newly-arrived-ukrainians/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220510T160000
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DTSTAMP:20250610T114614Z
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SUMMARY:Member Onboarding Session
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to new members!\n\n\n\nEvery month\, the Hub Team hosts a member onboarding session to welcome new members and facilitate a soft landing within the community. New members will learn more about what The Hub does\, what the Hub Team looks like\, how we can support them in their outreach and visibility\, and all the meeting services we have to offer. These onboarding sessions are also open to all other members\, especially those who might want a refresher on the onboarding procedures or to meet new members!  \n\n\n\nThe member onboarding sessions last about 45 minutes and will be virtual for the time being. Please note that this event is for Hub members only. \n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/member-onboarding-session-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220510T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220510T173000
DTSTAMP:20250610T120502Z
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SUMMARY:Europe in the world: The emergence of Collective Power Europe?
DESCRIPTION:The seventh Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture will be held by  Emerita Professor Brigid Laffan\, an internationally recognised expert on the European Union. The title of her lecture is: ‘Europe in the world: The emergence of Collective Power Europe?’. During the 7th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture\, Brigid Laffan will analyse the challenges facing Europe in a world of geopolitical shift and shock: \n\n\n\nOn the 24th of February 2022\, the post-war international order ended\, as did the 1989 peace dividend. A major nuclear power Russia\, invaded its neighbour Ukraine\, targeting civilians\, reducing urban centres to a rubble and triggering a major displacement of people in Europe. For the European Union (EU) and the wider community of democracies\, this is a critical juncture with implications for the security and political economy architecture of Europe and the wider world for decades to come. The Russian invasion takes place against the return of hard geopolitics\, Great Power competition and the weakening of multilateral institutions. Over the last decade\, the EU\, a polity but not a state\, has been grappling with its response to new dynamics in global politics. Europe’s search for a role has focused on ill-defined concepts such as strategic autonomy and European sovereignty. The collective EU wants to be a player\, not a plaything but is challenged by the imbalance between its economic power\, diverging preferences of the member states and an inchoate approach to security which relies on NATO and the Transatlantic Alliance. The focus of this lecture is threefold. First\, it explores the response of the EU and the community of democracies to Putin’s war. Second\, it analyses the impact on global politics and Great Power competition and three\, assesses the consequences of the war for the dynamic of European integration and the nature of the EU. \n\n\n\nThis year’s T.M.C. Asser Annual Lecture will take place in the Academy Hall of the Peace Palace\, The Hague\, the Netherlands on Tuesday\, 10 May 20‌22 from 16‌.00 – 17‌.30 hrs CET\, followed by a reception. Registration opens at 15‌.15 hrs CET. \n\n\n\nSeats for the live event will be assigned on a first-come\, first-served basis\, so we kindly ask you to secure your seat in the Peace Palace now. \n\n\n\nIf you wish to watch the Lecture online\, please register here to receive a hyperlink prior to the event.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/europe-in-the-world-the-emergence-of-collective-power-europe/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220510T170000
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SUMMARY:Community Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\n\nDear Humanity Hub community\, \n\n\n\nWhat are your ideas for a more peaceful and just world? How do you find The Hague? What are you currently working on? What are your hobbies? \n\n\n\nYou are warmly invited to connect and network with new and current members in a fun way – join us in person at this month’s community drinks and find out all the answers to these questions! This is the perfect opportunity to wind down after a hard day at work\, reconnect with the community\, and to discover what other members are working on. \n\n\n\nPlease note that this event is for Hub members only\, but you are welcome to bring a +1 along! \n\n\n\nSpotlight: Marina de Paiva (Strategic Partnerships and Programmes Coordinator) from MercyCorps will speak about the organisation’s work!
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/community-drinks-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220511T110000
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SUMMARY:(Online) Sustainable Procurement: Key to Greening Humanitarian Responses
DESCRIPTION:A healthy environment is inherently linked to the safety\, security and well-being of refugees\, internally displaced persons\, host communities and societies. In the last decade\, UN agencies\, INGOs and NGOs have started to mainstream environmental sustainability into their strategies\, projects and programs\, and operations; all in line with the environment-related commitments of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \n\n\n\nMost refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps have no access to the electricity grid or energy sources other than biomass. In order to meet the energy needs of the camp population\, humanitarian agencies have been supplying off-grid products such as solar lanterns\, solar street lights and solar home systems. Whilst development objectives aim to be considered in humanitarian response (to support the humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach)\, often\, the humanitarian funding cycle is shorter than the life-cycle of procured products\, and once devices such as solar products have been distributed\, they are often left to the end user to dispose of. Given that many products aren’t designed to be repaired\, this can create a risk to human health(e.g. leaking batteries) and the environment (e.g. contamination of groundwater\, soil and air with carcinogenic compounds) (ESDS\, 2021; PACE &E-waste Coalition\, 2019; UNICEF\, 2020)\, thereby negatively impacting long-term development goals. The unregulated discard of e-waste is among thefastest-growing waste streams in camps and camp-like settings. \n\n\n\nBackground of partnership\n\n\n\nInnovation Norway and IOM are committed to supporting the clean energy transition within humanitarian settings\, to enable greening humanitarian responses (SDG7 & SDG12). The humanitarian sector’s vision of the clean energy transition is articulated through the sector-wide initiative\, the Global Plan of Action for Sustainable Energy in Displacement Settings.  Further\, at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit IOM committed to the United Nations New Ways of Working and Grand Bargain\, both of which focus on enhanced engagement between humanitarian and development actors. Developing initiatives to green our humanitarian response to deliver on these commitments is crucial moving forward. \n\n\n\nInnovation Norway\, the International Organization for Migration(IOM) and Solvoz have partnered in 2021 to open up the expertise and technical capacity of various stakeholders within the humanitarian sector (private\, academia\, international organizations\, NGOs\, global associations) to address the growing e-waste streams from humanitarian operations through sustainable procurement. \n\n\n\nSustainable procurement\n\n\n\nSustainable procurement will take into account selecting the right products\, and also service aspects (e.g. repair\, recycling) to minimise waste\, extend the lifecycle of products\, and to reduce any final downstream effects of waste disposal from any product to be procured. In summary\, the partnership recognises that greening humanitarian responses start at both technical selections of items as well as procurement decisions including service contracts. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, we are providing detailed technical guidance on products and services\, enabling local service providers to more easily engage with the wider humanitarian sector\, green their procurement\, as well as strengthen the localization of humanitarian procurement.  \n\n\n\nOur approach to sustainable procurement for solar products will be presented during the session\, which is envisaged to be extended beyond solar products in future\, to encompass the energy sector and other electronic devices.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nClaire Barnhoorn – CEO of SolvozYumiko Abe-Soulier – Circularity and Waste Management expert Solvoz and InterActaGemma Arthurson – Global WASH Support Team of International Office of Migration\, IOM GenevaTherese Marie Uppstrøm Pankratov – Senior advisor\, The Humanitarian Innovation Programme\, Innovation Norway
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/online-sustainable-procurement-key-to-greening-humanitarian-responses/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220511T160000
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SUMMARY:HagueTalks event: What about the future of warfare?
DESCRIPTION:The wars of today are often seen as different to those half a century ago. Large battles have given to insurgiences\, and technology has allowed operations to be executed at the push of a button. \n\n\n\nFor civilians\, however\, much remains the same. Caught in the middle\, it is often these innocents who suffer the most. At the same time\, we may be seeing ways in which civilians themselves are reshaping the battlefield\, whether it be to resist oppression or to avoid atrocities. \n\n\n\nIn the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, #HagueTalks presents a discussion on the role of civilians in times of war. Are they inherently a complication to any conflict? Can they be a help to defenders\, or are they doomed to suffer? Or has warfare really changed that much at all? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJan Tijmen Ninck Blok is a humanitarian legal advisor and will talk about how resistant are the rules of international humanitarian law in the future. Jan is Red Cross adviser on international humanitarian law and fundamental principles. \n\n\n\nLotje Boswinkel is a Strategic Analyst at HCSS. Prior to joining\, she worked as a trainee at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)\, focusing on the Middle East and the future of war. \n\n\n\nRuslana Koropetska is from Ukrainine. She focuses on the topics of misinformation and propaganda during war and how international exhibitions on comics help fight such misinformation. \n\n\n\nEvent moderator is Connor Sattely\, who believes that to solve the global challenges what we need is a special type of crazy person. These people have one foot in technology and one foot in systemic change\, with the savvy to navigate that divide. And the built-in insanity that comes with those who dream about really changing the big picture systems in society. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-organised by the HagueTalksYouth – Youth Board. The Youth Board is a group representing young and engaged members of society. All based in the Hague\, they assist in organising events to help foster growing interest in HagueTalks and ideas concerning peace and justice.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/haguetalks-event-what-about-the-future-of-warfare/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220512T183000
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SUMMARY:Stop Putin: Q&A w/ Bill Browder on effective sanctioning in the Netherlands
DESCRIPTION:On March 31\, 2022\, in an unprecedented address to the Dutch parliament Ukrainian president Zelensky thanked the Dutch for leading the effort in support of Ukraine. And yet in the parliamentary debate that followed\, it became apparent that one of the main instruments at our disposal to help the Ukrainians and stop Putin – sanctions – seems to have been grossly unutilized by the Dutch government. In the meantime steps have been taken and some assets have been frozen\, but the question is: is it enough? And what can we learn from this case to stop war\, gross human rights violations and corruption at the source? \n\n\n\nThe NHC would like to invite you to a public debate on the role of the Netherlands in preventing support to war\, human rights violations and corruption\, in the form of a Q&A with Bill Browder\, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management\, and leader of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. Browder’s Hermitage Capital Management was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005\, when he was denied entry to the country and declared “a threat to national security” for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. \n\n\n\nIn 2008\, Mr. Browder’s lawyer\, Sergei Magnitsky\, uncovered a massive fraud committed by Russian government officials that involved the theft of US $230 million of state taxes. Sergei testified against state officials involved in this fraud and was subsequently arrested\, imprisoned without trial and systematically tortured. He spent a year in prison under horrific detention conditions\, was repeatedly denied medical treatment\, and was killed in prison on November 16\, 2009\, leaving behind a wife and two children. \n\n\n\nSince then\, Mr. Browder has been leading the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign which seeks to impose targeted visa bans and the freezing of assets of corrupt officials. Bill Browder just published a new book “Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering\, State-Sponsored Murder\, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath” \n\n\n\nJoin us on 12 May for a Q&A with Bill Browder on the topic of effective sanctioning and learn more about how to stop supporting individuals and regimes that are involved in human rights violations and corruption. The session will be moderated by Kirsten Meijer\, the Executive Director of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee\, with Sangeeta Goswami (Policy Advocacy Adviser and Communications Manager Human Security Collective) as responder.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/stop-putin-qa-w-bill-browder-on-effective-sanctioning-in-the-netherlands/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20220513T093000
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SUMMARY:Young Diplomat Workshop: The Impact of Culture and Trust in Negotiations
DESCRIPTION:As an exclusive opportunity for members of The Hague Humanity Hub\, Hans van den Berg\, director of The Young Diplomat\, is offering a series of three workshops with different themes connected to negotiation: \n\n\n\nMay 6: The basics of negotiationMay 13: The impact of culture and trust in negotiationsMay 27: Strategy and multi-party negotiations\n\n\n\nEach session will last 3 hours and include simulations and moments of reflection. The Young Diplomat advises that those interested attend all three sessions if possible. \n\n\n\nThe Young Diplomat works in the field of public and private negotiations\, specifically where these meet each other. The Young Diplomat provides training and consultancy in preparing\, strategising and carrying out negotiations as well as implementation and follow up of agreements. Its mission is to ensure you can achieve your goals through a smooth negotiation process where all parties benefit. \n\n\n\nPlease note that these events are open to members of The Hague Humanity Hub. If you are not a member but are interested in attending please e-mail community@humanityhub.net.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/young-diplomat-workshop-the-impact-of-culture-and-trust-in-negotiations/
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